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There was no discussion by the Spring Cove School Board at the June 24 meeting prior to it passing the 2019-20 general fund budget in the amount of $27.988 million by a 6-0 margin. This is a three-percent tax increase over last year’s budget. The three percent increase was the amount agreed upon by the board at the Committee of the Whole meeting on June 17 after a lengthy discussion. The school district still faces a substantial budget deficit. This represents a final real estate tax of 11.03 mills on the assessed value of all real property t...
U.S. gasoline demand hit its highest level at 9.93 million barrels per day for the week ending June 14. It is the highest level ever recorded since the Energy Information Administration (EIA) began publishing data in 1991. Counterintuitively, as motorists drive demand to new heights, pump prices pushed even cheaper across the country on the week. This is due to the recent trend in cheaper crude pricing and because crude comprises roughly 60 percent of the costs people pay at the pump, drivers are seeing summer savings. When compared to this...
William "Fippy" Davis (on right) of Martinsburg celebrated his 93rd birthday on Sunday, June 23, 2019, by riding a tandem bike for the first time. Leading the ride through Martinsburg was Fippy's grandson Brent Davis of Roaring Spring. The trip began at Fippy's house along Blair Street. Fippy enjoyed the ride as he had a smile on his face the entire time....
Conemaugh Nason Medical Center in Roaring Spring has announced its participation in a nationwide effort to standardize health care emergency codes. All hospitals in the Conemaugh Health System will switch to standardized Plain Language Codes effective July 1, 2019. The common and frequent use of emergency codes by hospitals to communicate during life-threatening emergencies routinely segregates hospital staff from patients, visitors and first-responders during emergencies by providing each group with a different level of information regarding...
At approximately 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 23, the Freedom Township Volunteer Fire Company received an alarm for a fire at a home along Donnertown Road in Freedom Township. Freedom Township Police Officer Adam Ingram was the first to arrive on scene and approached the now "fully involved" structure to check on any occupants. The homeowner, an elderly man who had just had back surgery, had escaped the blaze and was waiting near the burning house when Ingram arrived. As Ingram led the elderly homeowner a...
